Last update Oct. 24, 2024
Limited compatibility
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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Suramine Sodium is also known as
Suramine Sodium in other languages or writings:
Suramine Sodium belongs to this group or family:
Main tradenames from several countries containing Suramine Sodium in its composition:
Variable | Value | Unit |
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Oral Bioavail. | baja / poor | % |
Molecular weight | 1429 | daltons |
Protein Binding | 99.7 | % |
T½ | 864 - 1440 | hours |
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Suramin is a trypanocide used in the treatment of African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and as an anthelmintic in the treatment of onchocerciasis. Intravenous administration.
At the date of the last update we found no published data on its excretion in breast milk.
Its high molecular weight and high binding to plasma proteins make its passage into breast milk improbable, but its very long half-life would facilitate it.
Its low oral bioavailability makes it difficult to pass into the infant's plasma from ingested breast milk, except in premature infants and in the immediate neonatal period when intestinal permeability may be higher.
The precarious clinical situation of affected mothers, which may prevent them from breastfeeding, must be taken into account.